Affiliated Faculty

Eliana La Ferrara

Scientific Director

Eliana La Ferrara is the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1999. Her research is in development economics, with a particular focus on ethnicity, social norms, institutions and the media.

Lucia Corno

Executive Director

Lucia Corno is Assistant Professor at Catholic University, Milan. She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi. Her research is in development economics with a focus on the role of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, social norms and ethnic diversity. Lucia was the PI of an innovative data collection among homeless people and collaborated with the World Bank on randomized control trials in Lesotho.

Michela Carlana

Affiliate

Michela Carlana is Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge (USA). She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in 2018 and she was a PODER research fellow at IIES (Stockholm University) in 2016-17. Her research is in labor and development economics with a focus on immigration and gender issues. Michela examines the role of teacher stereotypes in affecting performance and educational choices of students.

Selene Ghisolfi

Affiliate

Selene Ghisolfi is a Post-Doc researcher at LEAP. She works in development economics, behavioural biases and social norms. Her current research evaluates the role of fairness preferences and bargaining power on the implementation of development policies and on agricultural technology adoption.

Pamela Giustinelli

Affiliate

Pamela Giustinelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics of Bocconi University. She is interested in modeling, empirical, and counterfactual policy analysis of individual and multilateral decision making under uncertainty-ambiguity, especially as it applies to the family and human capital contexts. She is also interested in survey methodology, particularly as it relates to this line of research.

Joseph-Simon Goerlach

Affiliate

Joseph-Simon Goerlach joined the Department of Economics at Bocconi as an Assistant Professor after receiving a PhD from University College London in 2016. His current research is on international migration, with a focus on dynamic aspects related to migration duration and how this affects economic choices migrants make.

Selim Gulesci

Affiliate

Selim Gulesci is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi. He received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2011. His research is in development economics, with a focus on credit, education and gender. He has collaborated with BRAC on impact evaluations in Bangladesh, Uganda and Tanzania and worked on the effects of compulsory schooling in Turkey.

Thomas Le Barbanchon

Affiliate

Thomas Le Barbanchon received a PhD in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique in 2012. He joined Bocconi University as an Assistant professor in the department of economics in 2015. Prior to this, he was a post-doc fellow at CREST from 2012 to 2015, and visited the department of economics at Harvard University during this period. Before 2012, he worked as an economist at the French Statistical Institute and at the Ministry of Labor. He is currently affiliated to IGIER and to the J-PAL.

Nicola Limodio

Affiliate

Nicola Limodio
is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi University and received
his PhD in Economics from LSE in Summer 2017. In spring 2018, he is a
Visiting Fellow at the Economics Department and the Julis-Rabinowitz
Center for Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University. Nicola’s
research focuses on banking, corporate finance and development
economics.

Paolo Pinotti

Affiliate

Paolo Pinotti is Associate Professor in Economics at Bocconi, the Coordinator of the Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation, the director of the research unit CLEAN in BAFFI-CAREFIN, and a Researcher at DONDENA. He has published several articles in international journals such as RESTAT, JEEA, EJ, and AEJ:AE. In 2016 he received the AEJ Best Paper Award from the American Economic Association.

Mara Squicciarini

Affiliate

Mara Squicciarini is an Assistant
Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi. She received her Ph.D.
in Economics from the University of Leuven and she was a Postdoctoral
Researcher at Northwestern University and Visiting Researcher at Stanford
University and at UCLA. Her research focuses on economic history and
development economics, and uses historical data to study the cultural
and institutional determinants of long-term economic growth.

Diego Ubfal

Affiliate

Diego Ubfal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi. He currently works on entrepreneurship, financial access and attitudes towards immigrants. He has designed randomized control trials in Africa and Latin America. His teaching focuses on Program Evaluation and Development Economics. He received his PhD from UCLA.

Fernando Vega-Redondo

Affiliate

Fernando Vega-Redondo is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. He has also taught at the Universities of Alicante (Spain), Pompeu Fabra (Spain), Essex (UK), Cornell (USA), and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He is the author of several books including the Complex Economic Networks (2006), Economics and the Theory of Games (2003), and Evolution, Games, and Economic Behavior (1996).

Latest News

Eliana La Ferrara Wins the 2020 Birgit Grodal Award

The prize is bestowed by the European Economic Association to a female economist for significant contributions to the profession.

Summer School in International Development co-sponsored by LEAP

This year's topic is "Investment Choices in Development Economics". The deadline for application is May 25, 2020.